Ex-New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani revealed on Wednesday that he had a “very significant spiritual experience” while battling a “serious” case of pneumonia that caused him to slip into a coma.
Giuliani, 81, shared details about the experience during his first broadcast of “America’s Mayor Live!” since he was hospitalized earlier this month — describing that his late lifelong friend and former top aide, Peter J. Powers, gave him an “intervention” during a dream.
“I also had a very, very significant spiritual experience at a time in which I was in a state of like … out of it. I would equate it to a dream of my being on line headed for, I can’t say headed for heaven, headed for a trial by St. Peter,” Giuliani described.
“There was a very significant intervention by my Peter, I have my own Peter… Peter J. Powers, my friend of my lifetime,” he said.
“Peter said some very significant words, and I made sure, as soon as I woke up, I started telling people and recorded it in part,” he added, noting his son, Andrew, recorded his retelling of the dream by his bedside in Florida.
The ex-mayor added that he plans to retell the spiritual experience in more detail at a later date and spoke to a priest at the hospital following the apparition.
“I dont want to embellish it, and I don’t want to deny what was there,” he told viewers.
Powers befriended Giuliani in high school and became his right-hand man, serving as Giuliani’s campaign manager and his first deputy mayor. He died at age 72 in 2016 from complications of lung cancer.
Giuliani’s health scare unfolded when he was hospitalized in critical condition on May 3 for viral pneumonia, apparently exacerbated by a respiratory illness that he contracted around the time of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.
Friends later confirmed Giuliani had slipped into a brief coma, but emerged with his health steadily improving day by day.
The former Trump attorney described in another Wednesday broadcast of “The Rudy Giuliani Show” on Lindell TV that he is feeling “100 percent” better after the ordeal.
“It is very nice to be back … I’ve been away about a week and a few days. I had pneumonia, I was in the hospital. I’m going to tell you all about it, not all right away,” Giuliani said.
“Im in the middle of making a very, very full and complete recovery. Today, I did physical exercise, walked up and down stairs, and walked all around. I feel 100 percent, but im probably not,” he added.
“America’s Mayor” also praised President Trump for being a “terrific” pal during the trying time.
“Of course, I have to thank the president, of whom I had a very good conversation after I got into the hospital,” Giuliani recalled.
Giuliani’s spokesperson, Ted Goodman, added that the president’s team was “constantly” in contact to check on Rudy’s condition.
“He was just terrific,” the former mayor said of Trump. “He’s just a godsend to this country.”
